Freedom Quotes

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.